In Flanders Fields: Passchendaele 1917

Wolff, Leon

History

Penguin Canada

In this account of the Flanders campaign, Leon Wolff graphically describes the whole terrible business: from Haig's initial plan; his determination to carry it out despite constant opposition from the Cabinet and the muddle of doubts and disagreement among the military staff; through the early stages of the 'great offensive'; and to the scene of the battle itself - the Flanders fields which will 'forever haunt Western civilization'.

Military

Penguin Uk

First published in 1960, Little Brown Brother won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians in 1962 as the book which "best combined serious historical scholarship and literary distinction." Available again, this book looks at a long history of Filipino struggle for independence. When the Spanish-American war broke out in 1898, the Philippines--a colony of Spain for nearly four centuries--was already in revolt against colonial rule, and its fight for freedom almost won. A vivid and closely documented narrative, this book looks at Philippine resistance to Spanish and American attempts at colonization, focusing particularly on the Philippine Insurrection in 1899 which killed 225,000 Filipinos.

Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippines

Americas

Oxford University Press

Of all the grim, gallant and inglorious battles of the Western Front, this is the name uniquely evocative of the mud and blood that pervaded the First World War. The total gain - a few thousand yards of indefensible slough - cost about a million Allied lives.

In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign

World

Praeger

Low Level Mission (Literature and the History of Aviation Series)

Europe

Ayer Co. Pub

London:: Longmans,, (1961). Good overall in orange boards, no dust-jacket (synopsis from dj flap taped to verso of front endpaper and half title page, tape over final lines of copyright info) . First UK edition.. The story of the United States's annexation of the Philippines - in 1898, the US, with the help of Filipino patriots under Emilio Aguinaldo, had driven out the Spanish - only to find themselves betrayed and once again under domination. The result was a bloody three year war in which a quarter of a million Filipinos and Americans were killed. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index 383 pp. Map endpapers.

Little Brown Brother: America's Forgotten Bid for Empire Which Cost 250,000 Lives

Longmans

Of all the grim, gallant and inglorious battles of the Western Front, this is the name uniquely evocative of the mud and blood that pervaded the First World War. The total gain - a few thousand yards of indefensible slough - cost about a million Allied lives.

In Flanders fields: The 1917 campaign (Time reading program special edition)

Time-Life-Books

Low Level Mission (Wings of War)

Time-Life Education

In Flanders Fields

Time Reading

Originally published in 1958, In Flanders Fields is a classic of World War I literature. Leon Wolff offers a brilliantly compact fictional narrative of the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as Passchendaele. The battle, which lasted from July to November of 1917, had a staggering cost: it is estimated that 475,000 troops were killed, wounded, or went missing. Through Wolff’s carefully accurate novelization of the strategy, tactics, and events of the battle, we begin to get glimmers of insight into how slaughter on such a scale was possible—how the battle was allowed to continue, month after month, at such a terrible cost. No other book takes readers so close to the mud and danger of the Ypres battlefield; on the centennial of World War I, a new generation of readers now has a chance to discover it.

Uniform Press

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